• For Jess: Foundation launched in name of teen cancer victim

  By JonathanPunt

  Re Inspired by the memory of Jess Having been very involved with the treatment of brain tumours in...

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 06:00 on 17/06/13

  

  HUNDREDS of teenagers are to come together to celebrate the life of a school friend who died of brain cancer. Jessica Hope Gauntley, pictured, was just 16 when she lost her battle against an aggressive form of the disease. Now her family and friends have launched a foundation designed to help other teenagers with cancer. Jessica, of Long Eaton, was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year after suffering mild headaches. The pain...

• A Day in Politics for India

  By NottmCrew

  WHAT IS THE BLOODY POINT IN THIS STORY?? why do people keep posting stories on the LONG EATON...

            

   

  By redbrickers at 16:32 on 11/06/13

  

  Attending Prime Minister's Question Time and a surprise visit to Downing Street were amongst the highlights of a Derbyshire schoolgirl's day shadowing her local MP in Westminster. Ockbrook School student India Cocking from Castle Donington was amongst a small group of Year 13 students invited to accompany Pauline Latham, Member of Parliament for Mid Derbyshire for the day. The visit was arranged to mark International Women's Day. ...

• What's up doc? Tubby bunny Mariah is sent to pet fit club

  By TonyGerrier

  More hard hitting stuff from Emily Winsor. Telling it like it is. Regardless of status or...

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 08/06/13

  

  Mariah the rabbit has had one too many nibbles and is now being put through her paces to shed the extra pounds. The bulging bunny from Long Eaton has been picked to take part in Pet Fit Club – a national pet slimming competition run by veterinary charity, the PDSA. She is one of 21 dogs, cats and rabbits from across the country selected to take part. Three-year-old Mariah weighed in at 3lb (2.7kg) – around a quarter...

• Barbershop singers' big chance to prove they're a cut above the rest

  By steamer32

  Despite recently featuring an embarrassing article about Long Eaton as the best place to live in...

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 07/06/13

  

  A BARBERSHOP chorus from Notts are heading to Canada to represent the UK in an international competition. Long Eaton's Grand Central Chorus will compete in the International Barbershop Convention, in Toronto, later this month. The group secured the position after scooping gold at the British Association of Barbershop Singers National Convention in Southport last year. Grand Central Chorus musical director Zac Booles, 27, ...

• VIDEO: 'UK's cheapest flat' could now be worth four times more after renovation

  By VisionFMS

  VisionFMS did the building work, from planning to completion, there where many obstacles not least...

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 26/04/13

  

  A WOMAN who bought one of the country's cheapest flats has renovated it and expects it to be valued at more than four times its original guide price. The Sneinton flat, at 79 Parkview in Bath Street, was hailed as one of the country's cheapest flats last year. Watch our video tour of the flat as it was See how the flat has been transformed It was snapped up at auction for £30,...

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